Yanny Levkoff

"Palacio" is an unexpected visit to an old hotel filled with mysterious and unsettling architectural symbols. Delving among them, the most delirious symbols turned out to be some of its 1,500 neighbors. Luis and Raúl Alaejos, uncle and nephew, arrived in Montevideo drawn by who-knows-what, and somehow ended up in one of the most extravagant buildings in the world: the Palacio Salvo.

A documentary about Luis Buñuel's 1977 film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, featuring interviews with the leading ladies, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina.

There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago, that the only way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuits, "to create a super-race that would combine the Eskimo strength and the shrewdness of the Westerner." Following in the footsteps of this extravagant theory, this film essay marches in search of that super-race.